Medicine & Technology

By Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — From Apple’s new smartwatch that tracks heartbeats to contact lenses that measure blood sugar — Silicon ...

While electronic medical records are supposed to advance the practice of medicine and health maintenance, doctors aren’t so sure.  In fact, the results of a ...

By Lauran Neergaard AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some current or former heavy smokers may benefit from a new lung cancer test even if ...

By Alan Lyndon Apple today introduced two new iPhones as well as the much anticipated Apple Watch, which is a combination of mini communicator, health ...

By Eric Whitney A decade ago almost all doctors kept paper charts on every patient. That is changing quickly as laptops become as common as stethoscopes ...

By Sandra G. Boodman Francisco Velazco couldn’t wait any longer. For several years, the 35-year-old Seattle handyman had searched for an orthopedic surgeon who would reconstruct ...

By Alan Lyndon Two high profile medical apps were introduced this week and have big-success potential based on different versions of an old-fashioned concept: the ...

By Debra Somers Copit, MD  As anyone who goes to the movies knows, three-dimensional images are far more dramatic and explicit than those shown on ...

By Brad Broker On Star Trek, medical personnel were equipped with “tricorders.” Today, they’re called “iPhones” or “iPads.”  Whatever you call them, almost all physicians ...

By Alan Lyndon To say the launch of Healthcare.gov last October was a disaster is being overly generous.  It was worse than that.  It was ...